Conflict, peace and mental health
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Conflict, peace and mental health

A case study from Northern Ireland on addressing trauma and loss: Second edition

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eBook - ePub

Conflict, peace and mental health

A case study from Northern Ireland on addressing trauma and loss: Second edition

About this book

A powerful guide for dealing with traumatised communities in the wake of conflict and disaster.

What are the human consequences of conflict, and how should healthcare and social services respond? In this book, David Bolton provides an answer to these urgent questions, drawing on more than twenty-five years of service experience in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

Focusing on the work he undertook with colleagues following the devastating Omagh bombing in 1998, Bolton reveals how needs were assessed and how evidence-based services were put in place. He describes the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities directly affected by the bombing and later the wider population traumatised by the years of conflict. Crucially, he places the mental-health needs of affected communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow.

The second edition of this clear and practical book includes new chapters on the challenges of promoting justice and reconciliation in a post-conflict situation. It is essential reading for those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures and tables
  8. List of abbreviations and glossary
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Timeline
  11. Preface to the second edition
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 The Omagh bombing and the community’s response
  14. 2 The Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team
  15. 3 Assessing the mental health impact of the Omagh bombing
  16. 4 The mental health impact of the Troubles, 1969–1999
  17. 5 The mental health impact of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 2000–2015
  18. 6 The Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation: a comprehensive trauma centre
  19. 7 The development of a trauma-focused therapy programme
  20. 8 Trauma-focused skills training for practitioners
  21. 9 Research, advocacy and policy support
  22. 10 Planning for and responding to the mental health impact of conflict
  23. 11 From conflict management to conflict transformation: progress in Northern Ireland since 2017
  24. 12 Re-thinking how to address the needs of the victims of conflict and to build the post-conflict community
  25. Postscript: the rupture of loss and trauma
  26. Appendix
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index